The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.

Montréal demeure une référence nord-américaine en matière de vélo. Mais entre projets suspendus, budget réduit et pression pour redonner de la place à l’auto, plusieurs signaux inquiètent. 👉 On vous résume la vidéo de Oh The Urbanity! dans notre article : projetmontreal.org/nouvelles/mo...

Dedicated detour signs for cyclists on the REV Saint-Denis. In anticipation of the road being pedestrianized for a week (Montreal Comic Arts Festival).

Big box parking lots are not my favourite places in the world, but this one at least has a bike share station and EV charging.

Canada’s emergency alert system treats “there was a child abduction (and/or custody dispute) 500 km away, here’s the license plate” with the same severity as “take immediate shelter, there’s a tsunami coming and Donald Trump is trying to nuke it”.

Cellphone data shows a decline of 42% in Canadians visiting the United States, higher than the 25% drop found in border crossing estimates. Myrtle Beach, South Carolina has the biggest decrease (65%). We visited there in 2019.

“The market cannot provide affordable housing.” And yet, have you noticed that some housing markets are much more affordable than others?

“Cities aren’t loud. Cities, when their hockey team is in the playoffs, are loud.”

New cargo bike rental service in Boulder, Colorado!

One thing I find really interesting is that conservative governments in Canada (like in Ontario and Alberta) are less polarized against transit than US Republicans — but *more* polarized (or at least more aggressive) against bike lanes.

one day, this constant, endless, exhausting, humiliating horseshit is just going to stop and it will never start again.

Le Québec : « Okay, au-delà de trois étages, ça prend deux cages d'escaliers. » La Suisse : « Chérie, j'ai bâti un immeuble de vingt-cinq étages avec une cage d'escaliers en Suisse ! » www.swiss-arc.ch/de/projekt/t...

The difference is that the Canada Post mandate explicitly says that it’s supposed to be financially self-sustaining. Maybe that’s unrealistic these days and should be changed? But for the moment it’s not like any other service.

“Typical recent parks offer little seating, little shade, few trees and no reason to linger. There is never a café, too rarely a washroom, rarely a water feature. Playgrounds, sculpture and chin-up bars are thrown together seemingly at random.”

The End of Cycling in Montreal? My Honest Evaluation

L’aventure multimodale près de chez soi!

www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic... What an insane thing to say at this point. What the fuck is going on?

The essay’s argument actually aligns with our research into how to get people to take action for public transit. “Transit fights climate change” isn’t a motivating frame; “ensuring everyone can get around with dignity” is. We still push transit as a climate solution, just with different messaging.

Yesterday, I uploaded a video on why protecting trees requires building dense cities: youtu.be/zneKVi6Rn44

This CBC essay about a family moving from Toronto to Saskatchewan is framed as escaping “busy city life” but most of it is about how cars and gridlock made their lives unbearable www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

People who don’t bike anywhere often have virtually zero knowledge of how to do it. What routes exist, which ones are safe, how they connect or go places. Same thing behind the “we have enough bike lanes!” crowd.

Just listened to a podcast where someone randomly commented that if you want to easily kill yourself, you can “just go to Canada”. It’s wild how medically-assisted dying is so prominent in people’s views of Canada.

It’s very good to finally see a major eastern publication highlight the fact that that this movement exists primarily because it’s core members fried their brains on the internet and are now compelled to suicide bomb their own country.

The American convention of referring to politicians with their past titles always sounds funny to be. “President Obama”? He’s no longer president! (Carney’s following it here but it’s not the norm in Canadian politics. People would not typically say “Prime Minister Harper” post-2015.)

Nobody loves their city like people from Chicago. And I can’t blame them! I think Chicago is my favourite city in the US that I’ve visited. (Granted, I’ve never been to New York.)

I use a Mac now for video editing. But I used to love using and tinkering around with Linux. I used it on and off since 2004 or so. I think the world would be better off with more free & open source software.

Thanks @spacing.bsky.social for publishing my article about the need to make completing the 72 km Loop Trail - and other trail gaps across the city - an issue for this October's municipal election. #BikeTO #TOpoli #VisionZero spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

Cities in Ontario: literally don’t have power to do anything Cities in California: I’m gonna build a neighborhood right on top of a state project corridor

Vancouver’s West End is one of the nicest neighbourhoods in the country. I’d love for everyone who thinks tall buildings ruin neighbourhoods to visit there. Tall buildings sound scary when they’re proposed. But when they already exist, they usually just feel like a normal part of the housing mix.

“Montreal’s long-promised plan to turn downtown’s McGill College Ave. into a large pedestrian square has been postponed for at least two years as the new administration reassesses the project.”

Genuinely conflicted on municipal amalgamation. Political fragmentation seems to encourage NIMBYism and dysfunctional politics in a lot of ways. But local control has also helped cycling and pedestrian infrastructure gaining a foothold in lots of cities.

I hate this so much. Alberta is working on provincial legislation to ban and/or remove bike lanes. Like Doug Ford in Ontario.

Calgary Transit considering different pricing structures, including distance-based fares and different peak vs. off-peak fares.

There’s a bizarre social consensus, somehow strongest among the elites and institutional leaders of the nation, that all this deranged behavior simply amounts to nothing - bluster and chaos sitting atop a fundamental normalcy.

I love how the short census is just -What is your name -How many people in your household -Are you sure that's how many? -Diplomats hiding in your home? -Speak french as a 1st language? -Speak french fluently? -Speak some french? -Learning french? -Planning to learn french? -Spoke but forgot french?

I know this describes a lot of people on here.

JJ McCullough criticizing official bilingualism, focusing on the need to be bilingual to lead a political party in Canada. But that’s not a law! Parties are free to run with unilingual leaders. You just might find that people you can’t communicate with effectively… won’t vote for you.

I think this was based on percent foreign-born, where Toronto is 47% versus New York at 31% and Los Angeles at 35% (metro areas). At least, that’s the most common way I see this measured in Canada. Versus the focus on white vs. non-white in the US.

Toronto needs to be significantly better at owning the fact that it’s the most successful pluralist mega-city experiment in human history.

In an effort to get outside of my own bubble and explore the real America, I wrote a story about ageing affluent white millennial parents living in dense urban centres: www.economist.com/united-state...

We have a whole back catalog of interviews on our YouTube channel and our website, so we wanted to highlight one for the current moment - a Chicago dad living with a cargo ebike and no driver's license, and loving it! #bikechi

It was this huge export industry employing many skilled Canadians and we nuked it over our inability to not be weird about housing

You can learn a lot about a country’s preoccupations from what its census focuses on (especially the short version, if applicable). 🇨🇦: Language 🇺🇸: Race/ethnicity

What are the biggest questions about car-free living that you have, or that you’ve heard?

The demand for anti-yimby scholarship has outstripped supply that meets academic standards/norms. Thus a black market fills the void...

"People based in the Netherlands are behind several YouTube channels that promote Alberta separatism but are fronted by hired actors, according to an investigation by CBC News’s visual investigations team and Radio-Canada’s Décrypteurs"

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IMO we’re lucky the first president in 120 years that wants to annex us cares way more about a ballroom than annihilating all traces of liberal democracy in North America but we will probably not be that lucky with his successor

Im not sure how we do but we must break the american perspective being the only one that matters in news

A hospital in Montreal with bilingual (French/Italian) signage.